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| Introduction | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Biblical Abbreviations | |
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| Christology of the New Testament | |
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| The Method of Biblical Christology | |
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| Critique of the "Liberal Quest," the "New Quest," and the "Third Quest" for the Historical Jesus | |
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| Reflections on the Method of Historiography in General | |
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| A Theological History of Jesus | |
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| The Historical Foundations of Faith in Jesus | |
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| The criterion of double dissimilarity | |
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| The criterion of embarrassment | |
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| The personal style of Jesus | |
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| Multiple attestation | |
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| The criterion of necessary explanation | |
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| The Death and Resurrection of Jesus | |
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| The Crucifixion of Jesus | |
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| The Resurrection | |
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| Sources | |
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| The earliest kerygma of the resurrection in Paul's interpretation (1 Cor 15:3-8) | |
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| The resurrection narratives in the Gospels and Acts | |
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| The appearance narratives | |
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| The empty tomb narratives | |
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| Historical Facts Connected with the Origin of Faith in the Resurrection | |
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| Hypotheses Denying Any Form of Resurrection | |
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| Various Interpretations of the Resurrection of Jesus | |
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| The Resurrection in Fundamental Theology | |
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| The epistemological question regarding the appearances | |
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| The credibility of the resurrection | |
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| The Beginning of the Gospel | |
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| The Virginal Conception of Jesus | |
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| "The brothers and sisters of Jesus" | |
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| The Holy Family | |
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| Is Jesus "the Son of David"? | |
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| The twelve-year-old Jesus in the Temple | |
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| "The private life of Jesus" before his public ministry | |
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| Jesus and the Kingdom | |
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| The baptism of Jesus by John | |
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| The temptations of Jesus | |
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| The outline of the public ministry of Jesus | |
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| The message of Jesus: the reign of God is at hand | |
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| The miracles of Jesus | |
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| The phenomenon of the miracle in the public ministry of Jesus | |
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| Historical foundations for the miracle accounts | |
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| Theological and philosophical considerations | |
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| The multiplication of loaves: a turning point in the ministry of Jesus? | |
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| The Kingdom and the Death of Jesus | |
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| "Get behind me, Satan!" | |
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| The Last Supper and the Kingdom | |
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| The sacrifice of the Servant | |
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| "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" | |
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| Foretelling his resurrection? | |
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| The Kingdom and the end of this world | |
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| The implicit Christology of Jesus | |
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| The Understanding of the Mystery of Christ in the Apostolic Church | |
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| "According to the Scriptures" | |
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| "In all the Scriptures" (Lk 24:27) | |
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| The Suffering Servant of Yahweh | |
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| The Son of Man | |
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| Jesus the new eschatological Israel | |
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| Jesus as High Priest and Perfect Sacrifice | |
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| Jesus the Messiah | |
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| Jesus as son of Adam and the last Adam | |
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| Jesus as the final and complete theophany of God | |
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| The unexpected newness of the New Testament | |
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| Jesus as "Lord," "Son of God," and "God" | |
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| Jesus is Lord | |
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| Jesus is the Son of God | |
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| Jesus is God | |
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| The value of the Old Testament for the contemporary Christian | |
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| Historical Christology | |
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| Introduction: Patristic Christology | |
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| The character and significance of patristic Christology | |
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| The relationship between Christianity and non-Christian religions | |
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| The Soteriology of the Fathers | |
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| Sin | |
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| Redemption | |
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| The metaphysical foundation of redemption | |
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| Christ as mediator | |
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| "He who descended is the very one who ascended" | |
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| "Admirabile commercium" | |
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| Redemption as victory and deliverance | |
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| Redemption as sacrifice | |
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| Christ as Teacher and Example | |
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| Redemption as uniting all creation to God | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Christology of the Fathers | |
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| Docetism and Gnosticism | |
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| Adoptionism | |
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| Arianism | |
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| Apollinarianism | |
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| Christological development in the West | |
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| The School of Alexandria | |
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| The School of Antioch | |
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| The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon (431, 451) | |
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| The Second and Third Councils of Constantinople (553, 680-681) | |
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| Medieval Christology | |
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| St. Bernard of Clairvaux | |
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| St. Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| St. Thomas | |
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| Christology of the Reformation | |
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| Luther | |
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| John Calvin | |
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| Liberal Protestant Christology | |
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| Kant | |
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| Hegel | |
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| Schleiermacher | |
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| Protestant Christologies in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Crisis Theology | |
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| Rudolph Bultmann | |
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| Karl Barth | |
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| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | |
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| Systematic Christology | |
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| Introduction: The Unity of the Mystery of Christ | |
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| Sin as a Threefold Alienation | |
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| Sin | |
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| The punishment of sin | |
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| The need for redemption | |
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| Why redemption through the death of God's Incarnate Son? | |
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| The Mystery of the Incarnation | |
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| The Old Testament: God entering into solidarity with humankind through Israel | |
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| A new stage in solidarity with humankind: God has become a human being | |
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| The immanent Trinity as the metaphysical condition for divine freedom in the incarnation | |
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| The feminist critique of the Christian mysteries | |
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| Historical considerations | |
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| Systematic considerations | |
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| The ontological aspect of the hypostatic union | |
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| The psychological aspect of the hypostatic union | |
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| The intelligibility of the incarnation as a mystery of Trinitarian love | |
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| The incarnation as an existential process | |
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| The Word becoming a human being | |
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| Jesus the human being "becoming God" | |
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| The Humanity of the Son | |
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| What does it mean for all of us that the Son has taken on human nature as his own? | |
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| Why human nature? | |
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| Why only one incarnation? | |
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| Why has the Son assumed our fallen nature? | |
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| The human knowledge of Jesus | |
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| The common human knowledge of Jesus | |
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| Jesus' knowledge of God | |
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| The human will of the Son | |
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| Redemption as Assumption of Humankind into Trinitarian Communion | |
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| The role of the Father | |
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| The role of the incarnate Son | |
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| The unique character of the suffering of Jesus | |
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| In Jesus God himself died for us | |
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| The self-giving of Jesus to God on the cross as the reversal of our alienation | |
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| The sacrifice of Jesus | |
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| The sacrifice of Christ as satisfaction | |
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| The role of the Holy Spirit in redemption | |
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| The final goal of our redemption | |
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| The "redemption" of the material world | |
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| The Universal Significance of Christ in the Context of Other Religions | |
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| What can the history of religions tell us about the significance of Christian revelation? | |
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| What does Christian revelation say about its own place among other religions? | |
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| How can we accept Christ as the fullness of God's revelation and universal Savior? | |
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| Christ and Possible Other Universes and Extraterrestrial Intelligent Beings | |
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| Biblical-historical considerations | |
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| Concerning other universes | |
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| Concerning intelligent extraterrestrial beings | |
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| Systematic considerations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Relationship Between Anthropology and Christology | |
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| St. Bernard, A Teacher For Our Age | |
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| The Universality of Salvation and the Structure of Salvation History | |
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| The Misery of Fallen Man: The Threefold Alienation | |
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| The Descent of God and the First Phase of Man's Redemption | |
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| The Mystery of Redemption: Liberation, Satisfaction, Sacrifice, Buying Man Back at a Precious Price | |
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| The Ascension of Christ and Man's Ascension | |
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| Conclusions: The Importance of St. Bernard's Christology for Our Age | |
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| Reader's Guide: How To Use the Book for Different Purposes | |
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| Index | |